erika salvador

employment

• Research Associate Intern June–August 2026

  Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

  Embedded with Philippine government partners, including the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). You can also check out my data and policy research portfolio, which includes some of my work on data cleaning, survey coding, and descriptive analysis from summer 2026.

• Schupf Social Sciences Research Fellow June–August 2025

  Faculty-mentored research fellowship at Amherst College during the summer after my first year.

research experience

• Research Assistant to Prof. Caroline Theoharides (Economics) Fall 2024–present
• Research Assistant to Prof. Nicholas Horton (Statistics) Fall 2025–present

  Supporting a collaboration with clinicians and researchers at St. Mary's Hospital Lacor in Uganda to digitize records for patients with sickle cell disease and improve clinical data collection, management, and analysis.

• Research Assistant to Asst. Prof. Jakina Debnam-Guzman (Economics) Fall 2026–present
• Research Assistant to Prof. Susan Godlonton* (Economics) Fall 2024–Spring 2025
• Research Assistant to Assoc. Prof. Katharine Correia (Statistics) Fall 2024–Spring 2025

* Faculty supervisor from an institution outside Amherst College.

teaching experience

• ECON 360 (Econometrics) Fall 2026

  Teaching Assistant to Asst. Prof. Mesay Gebressilasie

• Mathematics Fellow Fall 2026–present

  MATH 350 (Groups, Rings, and Fields); Teaching Assistant to Asst. Prof. Miriam Kuzbary and Assoc. Prof. Nathan Pflueger

• Statistics and Data Science Fellow Fall 2025–present

  Fellow for all sections of STAT 135 (Introduction to Statistics via Modeling), STAT 230 (Intermediate Statistics), and STAT 231 (Data Science), supporting 100+ students per semester across five sections.

• ECON 360 (Econometrics) Spring 2026

  Teaching Assistant to Prof. Caroline Theoharides

honors and awards

• The Hamilton Prize 2026

  Highest academic standing in economics among non-seniors.

• The Peter Burnett Howe Prize 2026

  Excellence in prose fiction.

• The Walker Prize in Problem Solving 2026

  First Prize, sophomore class; mathematical problem solving.

• The Corbin Prize 2025

  Excellence in poetry or the informal essay.

• The Walker Prize in Problem Solving 2025

  First Prize, first-year class; mathematical problem solving.

selected coursework